Rich Gedman
Boston Red Sox 1980–1990; Houston Astros 1990; St. Louis Cardinals 1991–1992
Percentile snapshot
1986 season — qualified batters
of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 9 | 24 | 24 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .208 | .208 | .417 | 1.8 | 12.9 | .192 | -0.2 |
| 1981 | 62 | 219 | 205 | 22 | 59 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 26 | 9 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .288 | .317 | .434 | .751 | 108.2 | 110.4 | .339 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 92 | 305 | 289 | 30 | 72 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 10 | 37 | 0 | 1 | .249 | .279 | .363 | .642 | 66.6 | 71.6 | .286 | 0.6 |
| 1983 | 81 | 223 | 204 | 21 | 60 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 37 | 0 | 1 | .294 | .345 | .412 | .757 | 98.0 | 102.5 | .333 | 1.3 |
| 1984 | 133 | 486 | 449 | 54 | 121 | 26 | 4 | 24 | 72 | 29 | 72 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .312 | .506 | .818 | 113.8 | 118.7 | .352 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 144 | 556 | 498 | 66 | 147 | 30 | 5 | 18 | 80 | 50 | 79 | 2 | 0 | .295 | .362 | .484 | .846 | 124.9 | 126.6 | .368 | 4.7 |
| 1986 | 135 | 509 | 462 | 49 | 119 | 29 | 0 | 16 | 65 | 37 | 61 | 1 | 0 | .258 | .315 | .424 | .739 | 92.3 | 99.6 | .318 | 2.4 |
| 1987 | 52 | 165 | 151 | 11 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .250 | .278 | .528 | 32.6 | 39.3 | .232 | -0.4 |
| 1988 | 95 | 332 | 299 | 33 | 69 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 18 | 49 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .279 | .368 | .647 | 73.4 | 77.2 | .290 | 0.9 |
| 1989 | 93 | 289 | 260 | 24 | 55 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 47 | 0 | 1 | .212 | .273 | .292 | .565 | 53.5 | 56.2 | .265 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 50 | 143 | 119 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 0 | 0 | .202 | .319 | .286 | .605 | 64.3 | 69.5 | .276 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 46 | 100 | 94 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 1 | .106 | .140 | .213 | .353 | -13.6 | -2.0 | .162 | -0.7 |
| 1992 | 41 | 117 | 105 | 5 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .291 | .286 | .576 | 64.8 | 66.5 | .273 | 0.3 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-09-18 | TOR @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 1985-07-21 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1986-10-12 | BOS @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1984-07-15 | BOS @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1984-04-27 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.